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5 Steps to Address the Rising Geopolitical Risks to Your Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Shift in the centers of gravity of the demand: As of the beginning of April 2022, about four million Ukrainians have left the country for neighboring countries such as Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Moldova. This has resulted in massive spikes in demand for basic necessities in these countries. This further adds to lead times.

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Introducing QAD Adaptive ERP 2021.1

QAD

Enhancements include: QAD Internationalization adds updates to help customers meet recently required international compliance standards for Brazil, China, Hungary, India and other countries. QAD Sourcing adds new autopilot sourcing capabilities and further automates the source-to-contract process.

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Uncertainty in supply due to nature: An everyday struggle for you, too?

DELMIA Quintiq

Are you sourcing from different countries and facing logistical complexities? Let’s imagine that you are sourcing corn seeds from France and Spain, processing and mixing in Hungary, and delivering to Germany. Is your agriculture business dependent on what nature is giving you? Pressure to deliver.

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Blockchain and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Enterra Insights

.” Many analysts are touting blockchain because it holds the potential to solve many challenges currently found in supply chains associated with things like fraud, visibility, and sourcing. To put things into perspective, that’s about equivalent to the GDP of Hungary. Benefits of blockchain technology in the supply chain.

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Country Risk Scores Mapped and Explained

EcoVadis

RSF calculates each country’s Freedom of the Press score based on two sources: 1) quantitative research 2) journalist survey responses. The second source, the journalist survey is completed by at least 5 journalists in every country. To remain in line with these changes, EcoVadis updates its country risk scores annually as well.

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Want to Succeed at a Large Firm? Become an Entrepreneur

Logistics Viewpoints

Then Jabil handles the sourcing and manufacturing of those products. They are sourcing from over 27,000 suppliers. Those sites are primarily located in China, Hungary, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, and the United States. The company engages in contract manufacturing services for companies.

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Anita Arts: “A supply chain manager can no longer sit in an ivory tower

Supply Chain Movement

The British company is owner of Unitymedia KabelBW (Germany), UPC (The Netherlands, Republic of Ireland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary and Romania), VTR (Chile) and Liberty (Puerto Rico). This extremely dynamic environment is precisely why she is in her element at Liberty Global.